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CEDAR VALLEY GEMS CEDAR VALLEY ROCKS & MINERALS SOCIETY CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Volume 39 Issue 4 December 2012 President Club Holiday Potluck Wrapup Marv Houg (319) 364-2868 The Club’s holiday party was again held at the Guaranty Bank in Fairfax. In Dell [email protected] James’ own words, here is how she described it: “I can say however that anyone who Vice President Bill Desmarais could not make the party missed out on a really good time. Lots of delicious food. (319) 365-0612 Lots of gifts and played a few rounds of bingo. It was without out a doubt the best [email protected] party ever. Next year, bigger and better. And the best part, people showed up Treasurer early to help set up. thanks Danny. Some stayed after to clean up.” Dale Stout (319) 365-7798 Hopefully you picked up your Agate calendars while at the potluck. Dale ordered a [email protected] Secretary few extra at $7.50 each and are available First Come, First Serve. Dell James (319) 446-7591 Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! [email protected] Editor The next Board Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 8, at 7:15 PM at the home Toby Jordan of Marv and Sue Houg. (319) 360-2762 [email protected] Liaison Joy Cummings Family Christmas Baskets (319) 981-2482 Imm. Past President Each year our club provides Christmas baskets for needy families through HACAP. Sharon Sonnleitner This year we are supporting 2 families. We are required to provide 2 new gifts for (319) 396-4016 [email protected] each child and 1 for each adult in addition to a food basket. Page 2 contains the gift Director 2013 details for these two families. Andrew Halfmann Director 2014 Tom Whitlatch Dues are Due (319) 362-0684 [email protected] Check your mailing label to see when your dues expire. If you paid in advance, no Director 2015 additional payment is necessary. Please pay at a meeting or send dues to Dale Stout. Jeff Kahl (319) 455-2201 Historian Leslie Blin In This Newsletter (319) 377-3339 [email protected] Family Christmas Basket Details……………..…..…….....2 Sunshine Annual Meeting Minutes…..…………………….……..………...3 Dolores Slade Monthly Board Meeting Minutes………...…..……………..4 (319) 351-5559 [email protected] Events to Consider.………..……………………...………..……..5,6 Hospitality Jan. / Feb. 2013 Calendar of Events…...……..…...…...7 Jeff Kahl ALAA Strives to Keep Public Lands Open...…..…...…7 (319) 455-2201 Hosts & Hostesses Still Needed for 2013…...…...…7 Webmaster Rockin’ In Morocco Adventure…………...…………...…...…8 Please visit the website for the Sharon Sonnleitner 2013 Rock Tumbling Contest...………………..…..………...…9 (319) 396-4016 latest news and updates @ [email protected] Tips on “How to” - Fossils & Rock Tumbling…....10,11 Items For Sale………………….……..……………….…...….....……11 www.cedarvalleyrockclub.org PAGE 2 CEDAR VALLEY GEMS VOLUME 39, ISSUE 4 Family Christmas Basket Details As in the past, hopefully you brought a non-perishable food item to the December 11 holiday party for the food baskets. A collection will be taken up to purchase additional food items to complete a holiday meal and to buy any presents that are not covered. If you didn’t make it to the party but would like to contribute, please send a check to Dale Stout. His address is on the back page. Any amount is welcome. We do not use club money for this project. Ground Rules from HACAP for the Adopt-a-Family Program Each adult should receive at least one new gift. Each child should receive at least two new gifts. We may supplement the new gifts with used items, if they are clean and in good condi- tion. The items listed below are suggestions from the families, but we may choose other gifts if we prefer. NOTIFY SHARON – [email protected] 319-310-0085, if you intend to purchase a gift so we don’t duplicate. NAME AGE Clothing or 1st Preference Non-Clothing OTHER GIFT--SPECIFY Mom 26 Vacuum cleaner Dishes Said they “have nothing” & would really appreciate any- Pots & pans thing. No allergies. Prefer Gift Cards to Walmart or Tar- turkey for holiday meat. get Girl Just Pants, shirts sz 5-6T, kind V-tech or something with Coat, gloves, boots (see sizes 3 of on hefty side/Mom headphones that she can lis- for shirts/shoes) ten to and learn from Underwear Socks (wears sz 10 ½ kid Mom 29 Jeans sz 16 Candles No Allergies. Prefer Ham for holiday meat Shirts sz 2X Gift Cards to Walmart Bras sz 42D Boy 6 Jeans xz 12 WWF wrestling figurines or anything wrestling. Like bas- Shirts sz 10 ketball, karate, and football Underwear sz 12 – boxers Socks (wears sz 3 kid shoes) PAGE 3 CEDAR VALLEY GEMS VOLUME 39, ISSUE 4 Cedar Valley Rock and Mineral Society Annual Meeting November 20, 2012 Call to order: 7:22 p.m. by Marv Houg, President. Minutes: A motion was made by Julie Whitlatch to accept the minutes of the last meeting as published. Seconded by Tom Whitlatch and carried. Treasury: Treasurer Dale Stout reported $2,703.06 in the checking account. A motion was made by Jeff Kahl to approve the treasurer’s report. Seconded by Tom and carried. Program: Following the treasurer’s report, the meeting broke for a program by Grant Wood Area Education Agency science consultant Christopher Soldat on “Developing Student Understandings about Earth Sciences.” The meeting resumed at 9:53. Elections: The nominating committee of Sharon Sonnleitner, Joy Cummings and Toby Jordan presented Jeff Kahl as the can- didate to replace Leonard Moellers, who is finishing his second 3-year term as a Director. There were no nominations from the floor and Jeff was elected unanimously. New Business: The Board presented a motion that the club donate $250 to the Mt. Mercy Grotto Project, which is trying to match a $30,000 Smithsonian grant to help with the maintenance of the restored grotto. Dennis Schlicht seconded, and the motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Dale to donation $100 to Connections for 2013. Seconded by Bill Desmarais and carried unanimously. Announcements: ZRS sent an announcement of an opening for their Morocco guided fossil and mineral adventure in May. The Midwest Federation show is April 6-7 in Lincoln The club holiday party will be the 2nd Tuesday, December 11, at Guaranty Bank in Fairfax. The club will furnish Turkey, cooked by Dell James, and drinks. The rest of the dinner will be potluck. AJ Johnson made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Seconded by Shelly Johnson. The meeting adjourned at 9:13 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Sharon Sonnleitner CEDAR VALLEY GEMS VOLUME 39, ISSUE 4 PAGE 4 Cedar Valley Rock and Mineral Society December 4, 2012 Board Meeting Minutes Members Present: Marv Houg, Sharon Sonnleitner, Dell James, Tom Whitlatch, Leonard Moellers, Toby Jordan, Jeff Kahl, Bill Desmarais, Dale Stout Call to order: 7:20 p.m. by Marv, President at Marv Houg’s house AUCTION SUMMARY A vote from the membership is required to enable the club to have the auction 2014. Will place on agenda for January 2014. Some concern from last meeting regarding the conflict between our auction and the Denver show. This year (2014) they occur on different weekends. Advertisement in Rock and Gem, separate from the calendar entry, was discussed. Darren volunteered to pay for half of the expense. Motion made by Tom to look into and place an ad in the Rock & Gem in February and September issues. Motion passed. Marv and Sharon will follow up. 1045 lots currently committed. Allyn’s stuff still needs to be picked up. Dale will work on it. HACAP families The club has elected to help two families out with food and gifts. Sharon will contact the families for more specific informa- tion. Watch the Web Site for information. (www.cedarvallyrockclub.org) Dale, Dell and anyone else interested will grocery shop on Thursday or Friday, (Dec. 20 and 21st) weather depending and deliver the same day. SHOW 2013 March 16-17 Marv has attempted to contact Tiffany regarding the student help for booklets, pamphlets, whatever. He will continue with the endeavor. Marv is working on getting display. Discussion ensued regarding the possible speakers and subjects. Ray Anderson, Sarah ?? on Mammoth, Jeff? Has interesting Tree story. Also Marv may put together a show and tell about prepping fossils. Newspaper publicity and main personality to be highlighted? Decided on Tiffany because of the fossil theme and her unique connection to repository etc. and University. Egg Cartons will be done again. Sharon will check on material available. Tom has 2 gallons of polished apache tears to use. As usual, $1.00for small and $1.50 for large. They sell well and are good teaching tools. We will need a workday to fill cartons. Raffle Prizes Dale working on permit that is needed. Suggested items, wooden dinosaur , Pete Larson has something for us, and Malm’s large Geode. These are in addition to the door prizes offered. Dinner on Saturday will be catered by Hy-Vee. A sign up list will be passed around at meeting. Extra utensils will be available. Last year there was plenty of food but not enough plates, etc. Desserts will be provided by club. Contracts have gone out and 14 have been returned. Library Leslie still has the library and Joy is trying to get it to her house. Joy Cummings volunteered to take over the library. Motion to adjourn by Leonard, Second by Tom Meeting adjourned 9:30pm. Respectfully submitted, Dell James Recording Sec. PAGE 5 CEDAR VALLEY GEMS VOLUME 39, ISSUE 4 Events to Consider — Provided by Dale Stout 1.
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